Main Event
Day 3 Started
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Madrid
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
477
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Day 3 Table Draw
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| Table | Seat | Name | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Javier Ferrero | 129.000 |
| 1 | 2 | Tome Moreira | 144.800 |
| 1 | 3 | Jason Duval | 195.700 |
| 1 | 4 | Anestis Pantazidis | 100.500 |
| 1 | 5 | Pedro Pellicer | 63.400 |
| 1 | 6 | Denis Noykin | 78.400 |
| 1 | 7 | Mike Adamo | 46.700 |
| 1 | 8 | Andries Swart | 339.100 |
| 2 | 1 | Siyu Sha | 274.500 |
| 2 | 2 | Yorane Kerignard | 35.900 |
| 2 | 3 | Igor Malyshkov | 149.000 |
| 2 | 4 | Vadim Markushevski | 116.200 |
| 2 | 5 | Alex Kravchenko | 52.000 |
| 2 | 6 | Juan Jose Chavez | 76.700 |
| 2 | 7 | Mihails Morozovs | 94.900 |
| 2 | 8 | Nicolas Levi | 202.900 |
| 3 | 1 | Koen De Visscher | 59.900 |
| 3 | 2 | Ben Spraggons | 77.800 |
| 3 | 3 | Mateo Sempere | 113.600 |
| 3 | 4 | Susen Petr | 35.100 |
| 3 | 5 | Kevin MacPhee | 181.700 |
| 3 | 6 | Cristian Tardea | 83.100 |
| 3 | 7 | Yury Gulyy | 139.200 |
| 3 | 8 | Jose Manuel Nadal | 212.100 |
| 4 | 1 | Richard Van Schendel | 49.500 |
| 4 | 2 | Jacob Rasmussen | 141.500 |
| 4 | 3 | Ivan Kuziv | 106.500 |
| 4 | 4 | Fraser Macintyre | 210.800 |
| 4 | 5 | Olivier Busquet | 80.500 |
| 4 | 6 | Joep van den Bijgaart | 27.400 |
| 4 | 7 | Jose Rodriguez Espades | 65.400 |
| 4 | 8 | Yordan Dimitrov | 180.600 |
| 5 | 1 | Jan Collado | 83.500 |
| 5 | 2 | Matthew Wood | 41.900 |
| 5 | 3 | McLean Karr | 230.700 |
| 5 | 4 | Dmitry Vitkind | 368.000 |
| 5 | 5 | Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes | 186.100 |
| 5 | 6 | Juan Manuel Perez | 71.200 |
| 5 | 7 | Paco Torres | 52.700 |
| 5 | 8 | Massimo Di Cicco | 161.000 |
| 6 | 1 | Joao Ribeiro | 51.600 |
| 6 | 2 | Ricardo Ibanez Rodriguez | 172.200 |
| 6 | 3 | Guiu Kim Jung | 95.200 |
| 6 | 4 | Alexander Petersen | 190.900 |
| 6 | 5 | Mike McDonald | 409.800 |
| 6 | 6 | Hugo Felix | 131.200 |
| 6 | 7 | Konstantin Aleynik | 68.100 |
| 6 | 8 | James Wilson | 27.100 |
| 7 | 1 | Martino Chiodo | 191.500 |
| 7 | 2 | Fadhil Farag | 129.000 |
| 7 | 3 | Henrique Pinho | 61.400 |
| 7 | 4 | Ilan Boujenah | 271.000 |
| 7 | 5 | Mikhail "innerpsy" Shalamov | 172.600 |
| 7 | 6 | Ondrej Vinklarek | 47.200 |
| 7 | 7 | Robert Cezarescu | 100.100 |
| 7 | 8 | Josef Bachar | 77.900 |
| 8 | 1 | Tristan Clemencon | 152.300 |
| 8 | 2 | Clayton Mozdzen | 218.400 |
| 8 | 3 | Jose Giunta Rufino | 38.100 |
| 8 | 4 | Dobromir Nikov | 186.800 |
| 8 | 5 | Maksim Semisoshenko | 68.200 |
| 8 | 6 | Rupert Elder | 79.800 |
| 8 | 7 | Mark Jansen | 113.800 |
| 8 | 8 | Antonio Gonzalez | 52.400 |
| 9 | 1 | Anton Kraous | 19.500 |
| 9 | 2 | James Sudworth | 69.100 |
| 9 | 3 | Juan Navarrete | 194.200 |
| 9 | 4 | Ruben Setien Herrera | 80.100 |
| 9 | 5 | Yann Dion | 219.800 |
| 9 | 6 | David Gomez Morante | 50.000 |
| 9 | 7 | Igor Sharaskin | 111.500 |
| 9 | 8 | Konstantinos Nanos | 170.400 |
| 10 | 1 | Cesar Garcia Dominguez | 80.100 |
| 10 | 2 | Kenny Hallaert | 102.900 |
| 10 | 3 | Ivan Tikhov | 141.700 |
| 10 | 4 | Marius Ion Geanta | 69.600 |
| 10 | 5 | Jordi Martinez | 189.100 |
| 10 | 6 | Taylor Paur | 238.200 |
| 10 | 7 | Javier Santos Mielgo | 48.400 |
| 10 | 8 | Ebony Kenney | 32.700 |
| 11 | 1 | Ismail Erkenov | 54.000 |
| 11 | 2 | Andrei Stoenescu | 197.400 |
| 11 | 3 | Diogo Borges | 71.600 |
| 11 | 4 | Javier Rojas Mederos | 38.100 |
| 11 | 5 | Rebecca Gerin | 119.900 |
| 11 | 6 | Ricardo Tavares | 264.300 |
| 11 | 7 | Angel Guillen | 95.000 |
| 11 | 8 | Anders Andersen | 142.500 |
| 12 | 1 | Manuel Sanchez Morito | 23.200 |
| 12 | 2 | Javier Etayo | 329.400 |
| 12 | 3 | Iakov Indenbaum | 173.400 |
| 12 | 4 | Borge Dypvik | 136.200 |
| 12 | 5 | Barny Boatman | 81.700 |
| 12 | 6 | Erich Kollmann | 275.500 |
| 12 | 7 | Yury Kerzhapkin | 51.100 |
| 12 | 8 | Tommy Per Bondergaard | 69.500 |
| 13 | 1 | Gianluca Marcucci | 118.000 |
| 13 | 2 | Javier "El_Cañonero" Dominguez | 141.700 |
| 13 | 3 | Anibal Figueiredo | 73.000 |
| 13 | 4 | Melanie Weisner | 43.200 |
| 13 | 5 | Johnny Lodden | 180.900 |
| 13 | 6 | Roberto Fernandez De Frutos | 86.500 |
| 13 | 7 | Toby Lewis | 243.200 |
| 13 | 8 | Mathew Frankland | 57.000 |
| 14 | 1 | Efren Garcia | 133.200 |
| 14 | 2 | João Paulo Simão | 169.800 |
| 14 | 3 | Frederik Jensen | 404.500 |
| 14 | 4 | Jean-Pierre Petroli | 102.700 |
| 14 | 5 | Dermot Blain | 75.000 |
| 14 | 6 | David Benyamine | 55.500 |
| 14 | 7 | Michel Dattani | 197.300 |
| 14 | 8 | Joao Barbosa | 45.000 |
Timex Ticking Toward Another EPT Title?
Good morning from sunny Spain, and welcome back for Day 3 of the EPT Madrid Main Event.
A field full of 477 players kicked this thing off a couple days ago, and that number has been reduced to 112 here at the halfway point. Among them are five members of Team PokerStars Pro: Team Pros Alex Kravchenko (52,000), Henrique Pinho (61,400), Angel Guillen (95,000), and Johnny Lodden (180,900); and from Team Online, Javier Dominguez (141,700) and Mikhail Shalamov (172,600) will be returning as well to try and claim one for the keyboard warriors.
Other notables still working towards a deep run include David Benyamine, Melanie Weisner, Dermot Blain, Rupert Elder, Kevin MacPhee, Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes, and Toby Lewis.
And that's excluding the top ten, which is filled with some familiar faces as well. Mike "Timex" McDonald is the overall chip leader, and he's put himself in as good a position as possible to become the tour's first-ever double champion. McDonald bagged up 409,800 chips last night, just a couple chips ahead of Frederik Jensen's 404,500. In the sub-400 club are Dmitry Vitkind (368,000), McLean Karr (330,700), and Erich Kollmann (275,500).
Our remaining players have just begun to file into the building, and the chip bags are coming out from hiding. Play gets under way in just about 15 minutes, and we expect to reduce our field down to 24 players before bagging back up.
Sit tight!
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
Ready Set Win
Level 14
: 1,200/2,400, 300 ante
The cards are in the air, and we're off and running on Day 3.
Early Double For Al Krav
We were across the room when the money got in, but our bloggers' intuition lets us make an educated guess. Nicolas Levi was likely the under-the-gun raiser with 
, and Alex Kravchenko had 56,300 chips with which to three-bet shove from the button. He was flipping with 
, and the dealer would grant him a double.
The board ran out 
, and Kravchenko is back up into six figures and smiling broadly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
145,000 | -57,900 |
|
119,000 | 67,000 |
Timex Gets Six-Bet Bluffed
Alexander Petersen raised to 5,100 on the button and Mike McDonald made it 15,100 from the small blind, Petersen responded with a four-bet to 27,100 and 'Timex' stared intently at his opponent before he made it 49,900 to go.
Petersen took about 30 seconds before moving all in and the decision was back on the chip leader. While there was no snap-call, McDonald's body language to seemed to suggest he wasn't entirely sure of the validity of Petersen's all in move and for a minute or two it looked like he might well make the call.
Finally though, he folded and Petersen flipped the 
.
"Gross," said McDonald.
"I didn't come to min-cash," replied Petersen.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
360,000 | -49,800 |
|
240,000 | 49,100 |
Boujenah Sends a Message
When we walked up to the table, there was a battle of the blinds in progress. It was Ilan Boujenah in the small and Mikhail Shalamov in the big, and there had been some action prior to our arrival that we can't suss out for certain. In any event, Shalamov had 26,500 chips out in front of his stack, and Boujaneh had reraised to 41,000 out of position. Shalamov spent a long while deliberating, but he eventually double-checked his cards and mucked them.
Boujehan was pleased. He flashed the 
and said, "Don't play with me." He showed his other card too, the 
, and the dealer pushed him the pot to chip him up to about 300,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
300,000 | 29,000 |
|
|
145,000 | -27,600 |
Lodden Busts Frankland
Johnny Lodden is over the 200,000 mark after he managed to turn a flush against Mathew Frankland's 
- the latter having made a pair of aces which was drawing dead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
235,000 | 54,100 |
|
Busted |
What A Call!
There are many times covering a poker tournament where you're waiting to see a player make a decision only for them to fold after spending an age thinking. It feels such a waste of one's time because there are most probably better things to be covering elsewhere. Then there's the time when you actually witness an incredible call and it makes all those wasted times worth it.
Jan Collado opened to 5,100 from mid position and called when Dmitry Vitkind three-bet to 11,000 from the button. The German called to a 
flop where he check-called a 12,100 c-bet. The turn came and Collado checked to face a 16,500 bet. He called once more and was really put to the test on the 
river as the Russian moved all-in when checked to for a third time.
Collado had 43,000 back and took so long over his decision that the clock was called on him. There was probably about thirty seconds left when he made the call all in. Vitkind mucked and Collado slammed 
down on the table. Some call there, buddy.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
280,000 | -88,000 |
|
150,000 | 66,500 |